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Vegan What I Eat In A Day – Korean (#15)

This was my first time making and eating Korean food! It twas legit. This chick suggested I do a Korean What I Eat In A Day video. I wouldn’t have thought of it otherwise so I was super glad she suggested it!

Vegan Cashew Butter + Chocolate Banana Smoothie Bowl
I was at the fancy food store looking for vegan chocolate bars to add to my smoothie bowls. Dude, their wall of choices was too much for my little brain to handle. I don’t give a fuck, I’ll admit that I like shitty cheap chocolate. The kind that tastes like pure sugar and cut with palm oil. Super dark chocolate, despite the MANY long years of exclusively eating it, is not what’s most delicious to me. The bar that I ended up buying was pretty dark but by the second bite I was fine with it. It was over priced because it’s “handcrafted”. don’t gave a fuck. I bought it because their packaging was aesthetically pleasing. Yes, I’m trying to be more of a sucker for good marketing. Not even close to my favorite flavor or texture but I kind of like that. Don’t go to their website if flowery talk of being a do gooder makes your eyez bleed like it does mine.

And as much as I want to talk shit on their inspirational message…. what I really want to take pictures of their packaging. So classy! And hipster! And handcrafted. I may buy another one of their bars but only if I can talk more shit while I empty out more my wallet. Their vulnerability makes me uncomfortable. ha ha ha

In a food processor blend frozen bananas with a dash of cold water, some maple syrup and 1/2 ts cinnamon powder. Pour in a bowl.

Mix 2 TB cashew butter with maple syrup and almond milk until you get desired texture. (Mix liquid in slowly!) Pour on top of smoothie bowl.

Top the bowl with chocolate bar, bananas and chia seeds. ENJOY

Vegan KimChi Pancake – Korean Jeon
Shut the front door!!!!!!!!!!! This is so flipping good. I made two pancakes with the intention of sharing with Mark. He took one baby bite and made an awful face. Come on!! This was the most delicious thing ever! And I’m not even a lover kimchi. But getting these both to myself was a home run. So freaking good. I think the secret ingredient isn’t the kimchi. The red chili paste has turned many dishes into pure flavor magick. So hey!

I didn’t add onion or green onion to the batter but I bet that would make this even better. This recipe was inspired by Korean Bapsang.

Heat skillet with 1 TB sesame seed oil. Fry pancake til the edges look golden and bubbles are coming through the top. Flip and fry the other side. My batter took 2 batches to use up. ENJOY

Vegan Japchae Glass Noodles with Veggies
I wonder if I did something wrong. Every time I read up on making japchae people whined about how laborious this dish is to make. I’m pretty sure it took as long to make this as most other dishes that is part starch and part veggies. I’m not sure. No complaints here! Plus look how beautiful the noodles are! I wish I had some starry eyed smiley faced emoji to put here. Ever since making smoothie bowls with pink dragon fruit I think there’s a higher bar of beauty a dish could elevate to.

One thing this dish needed was fresh garlic but I’m a garlic lightweight. I sauteed some garlic and left it at that. But if YOU want to keep it real there’s a way and garlic is the way. Also it’s suggested you re-hydrate the dried mushrooms for 2 hours but I used hot water & only 30 minutes. The stems were still too hard so I just those out. oh well. This was inspired by kimchimari.

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10 comments

Looks wonderful! Love the addition of spinach. And yes, made the traditional way, it is quite laborious but I have simplified that quite a bit in my recipe. Thanks for being inspired by my recipe and for linking it.

Dude thanks! What kind of Korean food are you obsessed with? I would love to try more stuff!

I turned YouTube comments off two years ago after reading pages of faceless fuckers telling me how ugly I am, how shitty my tattoos are, how unemployable I must be and how ashamed my parents must be of me… Oh and how I’m so much of a man.

I must admit i am a sucker for pretty packaging as well haha. It runs in the family. I bet it’s genetic at some level ’cause my cousin’s like that too. But she’s a sucker for “aesthetically pleasing” wine bottles!

The kimchijeon looks so appetizing!! Sadly we don’t have korean chili paste here… or kimchi….
I think i’ll be gross enough to try it with sauerkraut instead 👌

Dude I bet that is genetic. My family acts immune to aesthetically pleasing stuff. I’m in my 30s and am looking around like, how have I never noticed all this stuff before? Like I just blanked out on the packaging and just was all business with my purchases. ha ha ha.